Paying for Getting on Track

[AdamBarnes9]

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Could the Army Reserve, ROTC, and/or National Guard help me with funding my education? My plan is to retake up to two years of classes as a second bachelor's student at a nearby state university to apply to pharmacy graduate programs, where I would be a graduate student for four years. What are the possible ways for the military to help me do this through benefits? I would rather avoid deployment the entire time through getting my doctorate. After getting my doctorate, they could deploy me. I know it doesn't necessarily work like this and there's four year degree issues. Would just rather finish my education first. I'm not so much concerned with the military paying for the PharmD program. I know there is graduate school financial aid for that. It's more about paying for retaking the prerequisites or any prerequisites I've never taken before.

I don't know if anybody's had any experience with this. I should probably have enough for retaking classes as second bachelors between stafford loans and work study (tuition at nearby state school is about semester $5000-$6000 but I was just wondering about a way to get it paid for.

If anybody thinks I should be going about this differently, please say so.

Or if anybody has an experience with this, please say so.

 

[Passion4Sci]

You could send a pm to Caverject, he is the authority on military & education, or at least he seems like he is 🙂

I don't know much about graduate study & the military. If Caverject can't help you, or even if he can, perhaps you should go speak with a recruiter about the issue.

Could the Army Reserve, ROTC, and/or National Guard help me with funding my education? My plan is to retake up to two years of classes as a second bachelor's student at a nearby state university to apply to pharmacy graduate programs, where I would be a graduate student for four years. What are the possible ways for the military to help me do this through benefits? I would rather avoid deployment the entire time through getting my doctorate. After getting my doctorate, they could deploy me. I know it doesn't necessarily work like this and there's four year degree issues. Would just rather finish my education first. I'm not so much concerned with the military paying for the PharmD program. I know there is graduate school financial aid for that. It's more about paying for retaking the prerequisites or any prerequisites I've never taken before.

I don't know if anybody's had any experience with this. I should probably have enough for retaking classes as second bachelors between stafford loans and work study (tuition at nearby state school is about semester $5000-$6000 but I was just wondering about a way to get it paid for.

If anybody thinks I should be going about this differently, please say so.

Or if anybody has an experience with this, please say so.

 

[ValeRx]

The GI Bill will pay towards any degree. National Guard state tuition will not pay for anything past your first Bachelor's degree. Oh, and unless you contracted ROTC you can get deployed. They don't care if you're a graduate student or not if you are in the Guard/Reserve.